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Thank you whole heartedly for your advice and input WillMelling I was beginning to get a little disheartened by this forum. Which would have been a shame as I'd like to be part of it away from the doco as just another cyclist too. So I am happy you responded. I am very keen to look into the CitySprint side of things and have already got in touch with IWGB courier division to see if I can talk to someone there.
Thanks again
Jonny_Redbeard
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There aren't many couriers on here. I think Moving Target is moribund since Buffalo Bill walked away from it. And BB was the world's leading expert on the subject even some 10 years after he last delivered a package. The Fred Truman of couriering in many ways.
I think you will find couriers are like bike polo players - their reaction will mostly be 'not another fucking media person wanting to stick their nose in. What's in it for us?'.
You should track down the Radio 4 documentary City Messengers and it's follow up City Messengers - Still Pedalling? It features BB, a woman called Nhatt and some miserable twat called, I forget.
And then, to be blunt, you should give up on the idea and try to do something more original. Couriering isn't all that interesting, couriers aren't that interesting and it's been done to death. The City Sprint protest is worth making a film about but I doubt that's what you are looking for or what has any chance of being commissioned.